Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy

I recently deleted my facebook account (having suspended it a few months back) partly because keeping up with its changing approach to privacy, terms+conditions, etc. is simply too much work. Representing social relationships and working out privacy/publicy in that context is always going to be hard, but facebook’s approach appears more and more cavalier, reliant on their users’ confusion and/or apathy.

I'm James Stewart. I'm co-founder and Chief Architect at the Government Digital Service (part of the Cabinet Office) and deputy to the UK Government CTO. I led the technical team building GOV.UK, and before that the pilot Alpha.gov.uk.

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